Ladee Hubbard

Biography

Ladee Hubbard is the author of the novel The Talented Ribkins (Melville House, 2017), which received the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and has received additional fellowships and grants from Art Omi, the Sacatar Foundation, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Hedgebrook, and Vermont Studio Center, among other organizations. Her short fiction has received a Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Award and has been published in Guernica, Arkansas International, Copper Nickel, and Callaloo. 

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FICTION / Summer 2018

Yams

By Ladee Hubbard ,  Illustration by Anna Schuleit Haber

Just then they were all eating yams, candied and still hot from the stove. Golden-brown pieces glistening with sauce that dripped from the serving spoon as it moved between the bowl and the plates. Heavy sweet pieces that clung to their...